The Grand Tour season 2: Show gets unglamorous makeover - but it's convenient for Clarkson
THE GRAND TOUR has made a huge decision to ditch a number of its exotic locations and set up a permanent tent in the vicinity of Jeremy Clarkson’s home for season two.
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The original Top Gear team of Jeremy Clarkson, 57, Richard Hammond and James May were sent on a rip-roaring trip across nine different countries in season one, including the US, Germany and South Africa.
Each location required a whole new set up and was a trying experience for the presenters, but now new pictures have revealed that the seasoned motor-heads will have a permanent studio tent based in the Cotswolds.
The enormous enclosure has been erected on millionaire Nicholas Johnston’s Great Tew estate and is home to music festivals Wilderness and Cornbury, only 10 miles from Jeremy’s residence.
According to Amazon, the major change for the series was necessary following Richard’s, 47, recent near-fatal car crash and Jeremy’s bout of pneumonia.
Grand Tour: The show has made a surprising move to set up the studio tent near Clarkson's home
The Grand Tour's brand new studio tent has set up 10 miles from Clarkson's home in the Cotswolds
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We'll keep the studio in one place, and given how accident prone they are at the minute, that can only be a good thing!
Executive producer Andy Wilman said that the move would preserve the hosts’ “sore joints, struggling lungs and combined age of 158”.
Despite the new set up for the series, the presenters have still been travelling around various other locales to produce their exciting adventure segments.
It will simply mean that the presenters can spend less time abroad doing the studio scenes and can come home to the UK earlier instead.
This month, the trio have already been seen driving tanks in Dubai, howling in the Swiss Alps and nearly sinking their vehicles into Mozambique swampland.
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"It's clear that the most popular Grand Tour element of the show is when the chaps are roaming the globe on their big adventures and road trips, so that's what we're doing a lot more of for this series,” Andy continued.
"We'll keep the studio in one place, and given how accident prone they are at the minute, that can only be a good thing!”
The Grand Tour will return to Amazon Prime Video later this year.